ABSTRACTThis study was aimed at investigating poverty alleviation strategies through the use of adult education programmes in Ughelli North L.G.A. of Delta State. In this regard, the study sought to find out if adult education poverty alleviation programmes have impacted positively on the community dwellers. The population of the study is the youths and adults participating in adult education poverty alleviation programmes. Findings of the study revealed that tailoring, hair dressing, barbing...
ABSTRACT The aim of this study was to assess the level of microfinance credit and capacity building on poverl:y alleviation among women in Mbarara-Uganda. In this study, the main objective of the study was to analyze the impact of microfinance and capacity building on poverty alleviation among women. In this study, microfinance credit and capacity building for poverty alleviation are the independent variable while poverty alleviation and is the dependent variable. This research was grounded...
Decentralized Planning has been described as Ghana's third policy objective to its decentralization programme (Kumbour, 2010). This is referred mostly in literature as the "bottom up" Development Planning which is described as a departure from previous Planning methods also described as the "top down" approach. The main objective of the bottom up strategy to Development Planning is to involve communities in the plan preparation, implementation, monitoring and evaluation. The essence of this p...
ABSTRACT The study assessed the governance and poverty alleviation in Mogadishu-Somalia. The objectives of the study were to; investigate the governance effectiveness in MogadishuSomalia, to assess the poverty condition of communities in Mogadishu-Somalia, to find out the relationship between governance and poverty alleviation in Mogadishu-Somalia. The research used a descriptive design, descriptive co relational, cross sectional and survey designs. It was descriptive in that it described th...
ABSTRACT The proliferation of poverty and global inequality between and within the countries has resulted in an emerging consensus among the actors in the field of international development on the importance of social policies in the process of development. Different policies and structural programmes has, over the years, been instituted as mechanisms for tackling poverty and empowering individuals and one of such recent social policy measures employed by the MDGs is the Conditional Cash ...
ABSTRACT The study focuses on the influence of poverty alleviation programs on improving the live hoods on the rural population in Kyejonjo district. It was noted that the rural population depend on agricultural sector and research findings noted that Agricultural growth is seen to benefit farm households due to poverty alleviation programs in rural live hoods directly by raising incomes and food security, but also to benefit both urban and rural households by promoting higher wages, lowering...
Poverty reduction has been a long concern fol' all African co1mtl'ies since independence. The high incidence of po1·crty in Nigcl'ia has been a greatest obstacle to the development of the nation at large. This research work examined the role of the government in Poverty Alleviation Programmes in Nigeria in orde!' to reduce poverty to its minimum barest level. Questionnaire 111as used as instrument for gathering data for the research. The data collected were ana�y:::.ed using simple p...
Abstract/Overview Purpose: The purpose of the study was to assess the socio-economic challenges faced by CoG-Kenya in poverty alleviation in Emuhaya District, Western Kenya. Methodology: This study was a cross-sectional research that sought to give an examining and descriptive scrutiny of the CoG-K‟s activities in Emuhaya District of Western Kenya. This study sampled a total of 312 respondents (1 Bishop, 1 General Secretary, 1 General Assembly Trustee, 1 General Assembly Treasurer, 16 D...
Presently, when the whole world is busy celebrating the technological advancements, accumulated wealth and gains from globalization along with industrialization, poverty continues to stand as a ubiquitous and prevalent predicament in South Asia which is home to a quarter of the world population and nearly one third of the poor people in the world. Albeit, there has been a sizable reduction in the poverty headcount ratio since 1990, about 256 million people remain in absolute poverty in this r...
ABSTRACT Poverty alleviation is the most urgent task facing humanity today. It is a challenge that no country, developed or developing can forego. The characteristics of rural and urban poverty are quite different. In order to reduce rural poverty in Tanzania, improvement in farm incomes of majority of the rural population is necessary. One of the strategies which can be used as an intervention to alleviate poverty is Migowe. This study therefore, was designed to investigate the role played ...
ABSTRACT This project work was on the role of the accountant in poverty alleviation programme of the federal government with particular note on Enugu North local government area. The objectives of the study among others were: To determine the role of the Accountant in the poverty alleviation programme of Enugu North local government area. To determine whether the role of the accountant is of relevant in the planning of programmes and policies of the poverty alleviation programme in Enugu Nort...
TABLE OF CONTENTSDeclaration ... ............. .................... ...... .................. ....... ................ .iApproval...... ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . iiDedication ............ .. ................................................ .......... ........... .iiiAcknowledgment. ........................................................................... viAbstra...
ABSTRACT This report is about MFis and poverty alleviation in the rural communities of Thur village of Abim sub county, Abim district. The objectives fo the study were to establish the relationship between interest rates, immediate benefits, loan amounts, grace periods and poverty alleviation. The research was based on analytical design to establish the relationship between the study variables. It used secondary data obtained from journals, textbooks and bulletins among others. The informati...
ABSTRACT The downward socio-economic trend of the 1970s, which was largely due to the poor management and administration of the resources of this country, compelled the Provisional National Defence Council (PNDC) government to embark on Economic Reform and Structural Adjustment Programmes. Besides in 1988, government embarked on a democratisation process. Decentralisation became a major policy through which the democratisation process could be enhanced. Decentralisation is not a new phenomen...
Education is a tool for personal and societal development and its impacts are felt in all sectors of any society. The gains of education for the individual, is that it inculcates the right knowledge and skills on the individual which give him/her the leverage to seek for high paying jobs that will add value to his/her socioeconomic status. Also, it makes the individual to be a productive citizen. This makes education to be a mechanism for empowerment in order to break the burden of poverty. P...